Italy to send exCIA agent to trial for crime ring 6/4/97 NAPLES, Italy (Reuter) A former CIA agent and 64 other people, including financiers from across Europe, will stand trial as part of an investigation into an international crime ring, Italian state prosecutors said Wednesday. Alfredo Ormanni, chief prosecutor of the southern town of Torre Annunziata, near Naples, said former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer Roger d'Onofrio and the others would face charges of money laudering, false accounting and producing fake government bonds, which were distributed throughout Europe. The date for the first hearing was not immediately known. The twoyearold investigations, dubbed the ``checktocheck'' probe, caused a storm in 1995 when Ormanni asked to question Barcelona's Roman Catholic archibishop Ricardo Maria Carles over allegations he helped launder $65 million through the Vatican Bank. Spanish authorities said later they had found no proof that Carles had been involved in the crime ring. D'Onofrio, a 73yearold retired CIA agent with dual U.S.Italian citizenship, was arrested a month later on suspicion of using CIA contacts to help the crime ring launder money and traffick in arms, drugs and radioactive materials. He was later granted house arrest on account of his age. Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a candidate for the 1996 presidential elections, was also investigated in connection with the ring, but neither he nor Bishop Carles were among those named by prosecutors Wednesday to stand trial. Prosecutors said other defendants included accountants, bankers and public officials from a number of countries who are suspected of helping to maintain the network across Europe.